---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000816761-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TDC"
cik: "0000816761"
company_name: "TERADATA CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:40:33.597261+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Teradata CFO Claire Bramley resigns, Charles Smotherman named interim CFO

## Summary
- Claire Bramley resigns as CFO effective March 31, 2025; no disagreement with company on financial reporting or operations.
- Charles Smotherman, SVP & Chief Accounting Officer, appointed interim CFO effective March 24, 2025, also serving as principal financial and accounting officer.
- Company also issued Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings results and 2025 outlook via press release on February 11, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000816761-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TDC
- cik: 0000816761
- company_name: TERADATA CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816761/000081676125000006/0000816761-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816761/000081676125000006/tdc-20250207.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000816761-25-000006
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000816761-25-000006.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000816761-25-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Charles Smotherman was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at TERADATA CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 10, 2025, the Board elected Charles Smotherman, the Company's Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, as the Company's interim Chief Financial Officer, effective as of March 24, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816761/000081676125000006/0000816761-25-000006-index.htm
- Executive change
  Claire Bramley resigned as Chief Financial Officer at TERADATA CORP /DE/.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 7, 2025, Claire Bramley notified the Company of her decision to resign from her position as Chief Financial Officer of the Company (including as its principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) to take a Chief Financial Officer position with another company that is outside of the Company's industry.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816761/000081676125000006/0000816761-25-000006-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.